New York, NY – Archimandrite Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos was appointed the Spiritual Advisor to the Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society of America by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. Archimandrite Athenagoras spent much of his early life between Greece and Germany. He spent his early adulthood on Mount Athos as a monastic. For over twenty years,…

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops, in partnership with Bread for the World, will be hosting a three-part Lenten webinar series on “Hunger & the Public Good: Restoring the World by Living the Faith.” This series explores Orthodox Christian perspectives on the intersections between Hunger and the Environment, Hunger and Racial Equity, and Hunger and…

Cypriot MEP Costas Mavrides, speaking this week to the Orthodoxia news agency ahead of the EU Summit meeting, referred to the Union’s relations with increasingly belligerent Turkey, as well as the continued vandalism and desecration against Orthodox places of worship and cultural sites in occupied Cyprus. Mavrides reminded that “hundreds” of Greek Orthodox churches, monasteries…

  Sunday 8/21 March 2021 was celebrated as the Sunday of Orthodoxy by the Patriarchate, the victory of the restoration of the holy icons, as established by the Triodion of the Church according to the 7th Ecumenical Synod (AD 787) with the contribution of Empress Theodora, her son Mihail and of Patriarch Methodios of Constantinople….

Watch the 2nd e-Meeting from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and English Speaking Byzantine Chanters. Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer simultaneous English Interpretation for the entire session, including the homily as well as the questions & answers session. The e-Meeting is organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA and the AGES…

A portrait of the reposed Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amphilochios was unveiled on Sunday – the Sunday of Orthodoxy – at the snow-covered Monastery of the Holy Archangels, near the town of Prizren, in Kosovo and Metohija. The historic monastery was founded by Stefan Uroš IV Dušan in the 14th century and served…

The Church today venerates the memory of Euthemios the New Martyr of the Peloponnese, as well as Basil the Holy Martyr of Ancyra, who achieved the crown of martyrdom during the short reign of Julian the Apostate.  

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during a sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, noted that “true faith is significant, because it opens to us the heavens.” His Beatitude added: “The Orthodox icon is an invitation for prayer; the icon is not placed in the church to simply admire its beauty, it is…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, over the weekend received Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlasis, as part of the latter’s official visit to Constantinople. Vlasis holds the expatriate Greeks and religious affairs portfolio at the foreign ministry. The Greek official attended the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Sunday…